events of the day in two hours, vasyl zima's big broadcast, a project for smart and caring people in the evening , nayspresso, good evening. we from ukraine welcome to the air the program of the ukrainian service of the voice of america, time and host ostap yarysh. the united states senate approved additional funding for ukraine in the amount of more than 12 billion dollars this money is earmarked for military and economic aid to kyiv, as well as replenishment of own reserves and support for american troops in

europe, now the house of representatives must also adopt a similar decision and expect it in the near future at times and this is how the importance of additional funding for ukraine was commented by the leaders of the democrats and republicans in the senate, this document is filled with many necessary things that both parties support, for example, $12 billion in emergency aid to ukraine, so that ukrainians could get more weapons, collect intelligence and keep the government afloat during the war due to 7 months since the beginning of the conflict, it has become absolutely obvious that american aid has largely helped the ukrainian people to resist the evil and cruel putin's aggression but the fight is far from over and we must we must continue to help the courageous and valiant ukrainian people of ukraine -

this is not some benevolent symbolic gesture it is literally an investment in our own national security and the security of our allies stopping putin's offensive against ukraine will reduce his ability to threaten other targets in it will also help the entire free world, other authoritarian regimes such as china, consistently supporting the senates of ukraine within a reasonable framework plays a decisive role and prompts our allies to step up ukraine needs more tanks more combat vehicles longer-range missiles artillery and air defense systems more hymax more drones as well as preparatory training on western fighter jets and they need these things as soon as possible the biden administration must act quickly to transfer everything necessary to the ukrainian forces as soon as possible on the front line for the president's administration, now is not the time to hesitate, dodge, or hold back, true strength and determination do not provoke a bully, they provoke him procrastination and weakness, the results of what

are called referendums in russia were orchestrated in moscow and do not reflect the will of the ukrainian people , the us secretary of state and antoninken stated this. he added that the united states will never recognize the legitimacy of these votes and russia's request to annex ukrainian territory, meanwhile, american senators from the democratic and republican parties, rechart glontal and others, graham presented a new bill that, if approved, would automatically deprive the american support those countries that recognize russia's illegal annexation of ukrainian territories. as you know, it is inevitable that within the next 24 hours russia is going to carry out this annexation , any nation that helps and supports vladimir putin in this absolutely illegal action must bear responsibility for their complicity in any economic and military help to any country that succeeds in this annexation, this seizure of land is theft. and this is another brazen and cowardly

tactic of putin to test the support of the west of ukraine and we will not give it to them somewhere for chechen topics. and this moment of choice is another moment of choice for the whole world, if you side with putin and recognize his illegal annexation of part of ukraine, you will lose any support of the united states and we will do everything in our forces to marginalize you on the world stage, the senators added, if putin goes even further and decides to use nuclear weapons in ukraine, the reaction of the united states and its allies should be the same as if they struck the territory of nato countries, which appeared if he will do if putin actually uses nuclear weapons inside ukraine to force us to back down i think the reaction should be stunning the consequences should be catastrophic for russia as mr sullivan said i support this statement and i hope

nato does as well but from my point of view the use of nuclear weapons russia in ukraine would be an attack on nato itself, the radiation would not be limited to ukraine, it would spread to parts of europe that are under the nato flag, so if that day ever comes and i hope and pray that it will not happen nato as a whole and the united states in particular should consider this as an attack by russia on nato itself see i just want to add and explain why this should be considered an attack on nato because radiation destructive and catastrophic consequences of the use of any nuclear weapons in ukraine have spread would also be on the territory of poland and i talked about it with the polish leaders, so in fact not only in words and rhetoric but in practice this radiation will mean an attack on nato countries in accordance with the fifth article of the alliance's charter and precisely this is the justification for such a position, but according to

american military experts, ukraine is on the threshold of the third stage of the war, which should end with the liberation of the entire territory of ukraine, including crimea, and the construction of a modern army in ukraine. such opinions were expressed during the conference of the european policy analysis center in washington , using careful planning by the western weapons and military art, ukrainians are moving towards their goals, say former american generals victory to the state when the last russian soldier will leave crimea after the long bridge, when the ukrainians receive himars or other long-range weapons that will reach russian bases in crimea, the liberation of crimea will only be a matter of time, it will be a difficult battle for ukraine, because even in order to get to the peninsula there are only a few roads through the territory that consists from a few small islands, from the point of view of a conventional war,

it will be difficult to even get to the territory of crimea, because when the russians invaded crimea in 2014 , they used the fleet and special forces destination, and the ukrainians now have no fleet, it is not possible to take the territory with artillery, the ground troops are needed, and we continue our release of the damage to the gas pipelines. the nord stream is the result of deliberate and irresponsible acts of sabotage. nato member states also made a joint statement. cause significant damage to the environment, and any deliberate attack on the critical infrastructure of the alliance members receives a unified and decisive response more about the development of these events, let's talk with bohdan tsyupin, who is joining us now from london. bohdan,

i congratulate you. so, to begin with, let's figure out what the current situation is with the damage to the northern stream, what is known at the moment. now we only know that gas is coming out and now we have counted four places where does it come from the nord stream and nord stream-2 pipelines, today the information came from sweden, also seismologists said the day before that there were explosions approximately in the region where the gas is now leaking, but what exactly happened there. we cannot say with certainty at the moment, except to say that it cannot be an accident , and now the experts say that the real investigation can begin only when the experts have access to these affected places, the problem is that when gas comes out there, it is dangerous for

student, and for possible rescuers or specialists , therefore predict that the gas may still come out for a week, and maybe even longer, only when the pressure stabilizes, then the specialists will try to get there and start to find out what happened also the extent of the damage and the possibility of repairing the pipelines bohdan, how can all this affect ukraine in general, especially on the eve of the winter of ukraine - this applies almost directly not only because of the russian war against ukraine and not only because energy has actually become a weapon in this war, but also because ukraine is a very important , and until recently, a critically important transitor

of russian gas, before the construction of the nord stream one ukraine was the main transitor of gas, now the situation is different, in particular because there is a pipeline in the south that transports gas through the balkans to europe, the so-called turkish stream, but the question still arises whether russia can now refer to technical problems and stop supplying almost stop supplying gas to europe in the conditions of the onset of winter, or are there still opportunities are the pipelines still left and without the northern flows so that, if necessary, europeans can receive important gas in the winter, and about this i spoke with an expert today, he is the director of gas research at the oxford energy institute

james anderson here is what he said: the theoretical capacity of existing gas pipelines is still there, for example, there is 33 billion cubic meters on the yamal gas pipeline europe has a theoretical capacity of approximately 100-120 billion cubic meters through ukraine and there are more than 30 billion cubic meters in the turkish stream so theoretically even without the northern there is a flow of gas pipelines from russia to europe, but the yamal gas pipeline europe does not receive gas due to russian sanctions for transportation through ukraine, russia signed a contract for only 40 billion cubic meters for year, and the turkish flow is already operating almost at the limit of capacity. so, in practice, without the nord stream, the capacity to supply russian gas to europe is not enough, although in theory they are bohdan and i comment on this situation in europe, who they say can

benefit from such a diversion if you listen to the specialists and listen to the officials, they are very careful, they talk about sabotage, in fact, everyone talks about sabotage, even russia itself and president putin was the last who said that it is about sabotage and even terrorism, deliberate actions but if we talk about the west towards europe and the search for a possible attacker, again, we still do not even know any data on the investigation, in fact , it has not yet started, but under these conditions, the eyes are still turned to russia why because russia has long used energy and gas as a tool in its foreign policy, and in the conditions of the war in ukraine, and in fact as a weapon, and russia has repeatedly hinted and threatened through the mouths of various russian

representatives that it will completely stop the supply of gas to europe if europe does not comply and if europe will continue to support ukraine, and experts will now say that if it is true that in the long term, the cessation of gas supply to europe will harm russia, because russia will obviously lose profits, it will obviously lose the market, and it is already losing the market because europe is switching to alternative sources to a large extent, this process is continuing and intensifying but in in the near future , it would be the most painful for the europeans right now, and that is why experts say that an ally here or europeans or let's say russia, which may try to use gas for pressure, the weather will be. if

the winter is too severe, it will create problems both for household consumers, but first of all for industrial consumers in europe, we will really see how the situation develops further, thank you very much bohdan, i will remind you to contact us because bohdan tsyupin and salon putin's decree on mobilization obliged international companies still working in russia to help the kremlin with equipment, materials and registration of conscripts in the ukrainian the ministry of foreign affairs named the companies that will contribute to this as complicit in a barbaric war. oksana bedrotenko spoke to analysts from yale university and the business for ukraine project, who monitor the benefits of international business from russia, and also spoke to activists who put pressure on such a company. to actively support the kremlin's war against ukraine, such a

choice was put before companies operating in russia. putin's decree on mobilization obliges the company to provide the mobilized with equipment pressure can speed up the exit of foreign investors from russia, and the money withdrawn by investors may eventually end up in ukraine. among those foreign companies that still remain in russia, 40% have expressed their readiness to exit. andrii onoprienko from the kyiv school of economics and ethics points out that the trend is those companies that there they expected, they couldn't finally make a decision , we see more and more cases that these decisions are finally made earlier months of the war has passed, and it's already legal exit yes, i will not just declare and recognize the year, we see that the main wave of business exit is already happening, technological energy companies,

professional consulting services for which corporate social responsibility is generally important, they exited companies from those countries that do not necessarily support ukraine, such as china and india are still there in russia, but the majority has already left and this is equal to 40% of russian gdp, the exit of the company hurts the russian economy, economists say, if we talk in terms of money, then there is a total of more than 25 billion foreign exchange earnings there adheres to ukraine, the aggressor, if we talk about personnel, then there will be about 250,000 people who will be out of work, or already out of work, or will have to find a replacement, most likely for a smaller, high-paying job, or we will be mobilized, but putin's latest decree is not the only reason for the new wave of foreign companies leaving from russia, yes, give this uh, i would say there are several reasons, there is morality and social responsibility, but also

the risk of doing business in russia, there are legal risks. we recently saw putin's puppet parliament adopted a law that allows the nationalization of any business and obliges companies to make supplies for the russian army. there is always a risk of corruption in russia, a japanese company faced this when the kremlin nationalized its enterprises on sakhalin, but its the case of a chinese company that wanted to leave russia but faced protests in china, this is the chinese wave of uber. there, the public did not support ukraine at all, one of the most active ukrainian communities abroad, which has already convinced companies to reduce or completely give up business in russia - these are activists from australia public opinion says one of the australian activists is a very powerful factor that affects the company's decision thousands of companies have already left russia and i think that none of them left because the government made some decisions just because or because they are so good, these companies have to be

squeezed out of russia. bohdanovich says that the decisions of managers and owners of the company are most influenced by the personal stories of his relatives and friends who have to suffer because of the russian invasion of ukraine, they also begin to sympathize and then they sometimes change their decision" - this is a very large, uh, large graphic design company with one and a half million users in russia and they did not want to leave at first, but after a couple of months of our pressure, they left completely and

this money that is currently being taken out of russia and companies that are leaving the russian market can go to ukraine, they say in the kyiv school of economics, we already see there with the return of mcdonald's the other day , literally yesterday, factories are gradually resuming work now new ones are opening plus well, it is clear that it is super difficult for a warring country to do this, yes, for sure , but after the return of peace as the war ended, i think that many of those companies that left , well, in the near future, they will definitely not return to russia and will look for new markets, taking into account the recent attitude towards ukraine , it is worth hoping. well, we have seen. by the way, when our president zelensky met in america, there were several phone calls by stop managers of the top 100 largest companies and many of

they have expressed interest in supporting ukraine , activists and researchers point out that every war is not only a battle on the battlefield, but also a competition between the economies of opponents, and the faster the russian economy falls, the faster russia will lose the war it unleashed against ukraine. aggression , the ukrainian logistics business practically stopped its work, the grain agreement only slightly affected the situation, entrepreneur andrii stavinser , the owner of one of the largest container terminals in ukraine, while his business is blocked , he is actively engaged in humanitarian and charity projects, iryna solomenko asked him about them. greetings, andrii, i would like to start a conversation with a little bit of such a personal story, because

at the beginning of the war on the internet, apparently, the news about what you acquired on your the ukrainian artillery's own building. when they saw that the russian military was there, the building would have been rebuilt anyway. what is there now in the building? at the moment, it was quite unpleasant. the sight was quite unpleasant, such a very dirty feeling, not the feeling of light and hatred, but dirt and the need to wash when you see soldiers walking around your house, they took looted things from other houses there, they looted the whole village, and they took it to me and then sent loads to belarus for me it was a very simple choice, it was not necessary to think for a long time to do it, i called and told the guy, i see this and that, as far as i understand, they sent a drone there, filmed what was happening there, and then arta hit the house is subject to restoration, but it will require significant efforts and resources, not only the house suffered from russian aggression, but also your business, because it is

logistics - these are ports that were forged like this even before the war began. my business stopped working on the second day of the war. when it was closed the sea and i did not work for almost six months, then thanks to the grain agreement we gradually began to ship almost immediately after the grain agreement, oleksiy vada tursky died, this is a huge loss for the entire ukrainian agricultural and logistics business i have no illusions that this was done on purpose i saw the house turned into his bedroom this is the only part of my business that works today everything else is standing we pay the salaries of critical staff and security we have almost completely spent our cash cushion but we are waiting and hoping that others will open cargoes, we see that the russians continue to blackmail the whole world, the grain agreement was for the americans to clarify whether there are sanctions on russian fertilizers and grain, the americans do their part

fulfilled and said that they never sanctioned russian grain and fertilizer, because they support the world food program against hunger, but it still did not help all over the world. people are very bad at buying russian grain and fertilizers. of course , the russians say that you fooled us. now there are new conditions. we want to export russian ammonia through the ammonia pipeline and the odesa port plant, then we will not get out of the generic agreement, it is read between the lines, it is interesting what the further conditions will be, just очень интересно что будет дальше какие there will be the following conditions: it practically does not work, but you spend a lot of effort and money. i understand that for humanitarian aid, that is, the opening of a clinic and human, it is also a cool project, it is very powerful. i can do it because of the resources. yes, for all these projects. and now there is no business. and now there is no business and i am only doing this. to be honest, my brain does not return

to business circulation at all. i do not want to do business. i see how important and necessary what we do is. and a completely different motivation, there is no time to sleep, the word is used, it is inconvenient, i can call anyone at any time and demand money, and everything is arranged. i think we will open in the spring . own resources, because just attract other resources, money, they give us money, we are responsible for every penny, the project takes off , very interesting people join and incredible things happen, because many people want to help, and for them it is a tool, someone finds good doctors someone gives money, someone helps with equipment, everyone a little bit. richard branson gives her money and equipment and contacts. howard buffett just gives money and contacts. the vast majority of people who give money are foreign donors. that is to say, in ukraine

there is probably no particular source of money from which to take money now, there are very many people. many people of ukraine want to give money, we refuse. i think there will be some kind of hybrid option, we will take money from someone in ukraine as well, but still the priority of our fundraising is foreigners. 12 million we raised about 12 million dollars to start we need 20 to finish the whole big program 50 to start face reconstruction operations in the hospital and start prosthetics at the first stage prosthetics will be abroad and in parallel we will build a laboratory for the production of prostheses the clinic will be opened in in kyiv , a clinic in lviv on a base in lviv on the base of a veterans hospital, we have a nine-story wing there and a separate building for rehabilitation and a training center quietly because not everyone is probably in our viewers know that this center will be opened in poland almost from the first day. it was

such a hub from where the humanitarian demand was manifested in ukraine. on the second day of the war, we opened this center in poland. the center, the center solved the problem for many europeans and foreigners, they really wanted to help ukraine, but they had no idea how to do it, because personally delivering the cargo to ukraine was impossible, it was terribly dangerous, so we said, friends, this is the place where you you can leave cargo and from here we will deliver everything to the hottest places now there is some kind of international expansion yesterday i was approached by people from australia who want to open a center there two weeks ago we opened in new jersey we see that there is great potential here many people from all over the usa wants to help ukraine and they don't know how we say it, here is a list of what is most needed today, winter is coming, there is not enough sleeping bags, we need sleeping bags, yes, please, here is the list

, get your municipality or district hospital, send us a pallet of something according to this list, volunteers are already sorting it, medicine is flying by plane, other non-urgent cargo by sea is already our headache , how is it all? to hope that they will be short-term yes, and the victory will be quick and they will not be, that is, there will be no need for them anymore, but here are all the mechanisms, all of them are there, and i do not know the practices that you have developed, they are actually unique, the rights will get used to the queens we we don't have the right to get used to war, the whole country should now be on military rails. if there is an opportunity to help the army, we need to do it because as soon as we start getting used to war, everyone will do their own thing. and this routine will definitely not speed up our

victory, so i am not thinking about what will be after the war, i am thinking about ending it as soon as possible and how to achieve it. we have no right to get used to the war for a minute and think about ordinary life and understand. life goes on, people get married, are born, die, but we have a war - this is the most important thing and everyone should be doing this . meanwhile, almost 2 million people in the state of florida were left without electricity due to a tropical storm, and the day before florida residents were ordered to evacuate, they were warned of record and dangerous flooding in the central part of the state again. forecasters expect that the strength of the storm will decrease in thursday, but it could regain hurricane strength when it approaches south carolina on friday download the voice of america mobile app the app lets you automatically bypass the lockdown thanks to the built-in vpn service, read the news

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kachanovsky, who was kidnapped by the russians in the mykolaiv region and held for more than a month. the boy was released in captivity. he is already in freedom and is with his parents. she barely holds back tears of joy and at the same time says that this time while her son was in captivity became the most difficult for her in her life, of course she was not happy that the children came. in general, at my sister’s, but at home, it’s for me, i don’t know, it was like that, abbu, too. we talked with the older sister of andria. she says that her brother is physically fine now, but psychologically, unfortunately, there are certain problems.